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Platypus tuberculosus Strohmeyer, 1910 (a species of weevil)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

TMAG collecctions

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Curculionoidea

Family: Curculionidae

Subfamily: Platypodinae

Tribe: Platypodini

Morphology

Typical length (mm):  5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Platypus tuberculosus
Platypus tuberculosus
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